From World Lasers, Inc.
The Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC) is a device used by scientists to exert extreme pressures on a material. A DAC, used at room temperature, can generate a pressure of up to 250kbar/25GPa. Research has proved that the higher the temperature of the DAC used, the higher is the pressure delivered. Heating of the DAC has now become of common place in labs, institutions and research centers. Until recently, most geologists and physicists have been using resistive heating (up to some 100s of Kelvins), but since laser heating has been introduced in the DAC, scientists have been able to study, in depth, fields requiring high temperature-pressure conditions - the core of the Earth and Jovial planets, thermal and nuclear explosions, and metallic-hydrogen.
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